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parent: Meetings
title: "2025-05-16"
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# Academy Software Foundation Technical Advisory Council (TAC) Meeting - May 16, 2025
Join the meeting at [https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/97880950229?password=81d2940e-c055-43b9-9b5a-6cd7d7090feb](https://zoom-lfx.platform.linuxfoundation.org/meeting/97880950229?password=81d2940e-c055-43b9-9b5a-6cd7d7090feb)
## Voting Representative Attendees
### Premier Member Representatives
- [ ] Andrew Jones - Netflix, Inc.
- [ ] Chris Hall - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
- [ ] Eric Enderton - NVIDIA Corporation
- [ ] Erik Niemeyer - Intel Corporation
- [ ] Gordon Bradley - Autodesk
- [ ] Greg Denton - Microsoft Corporation
- [ ] Jean-Michel Dignard - Epic Games, Inc
- [ ] Kimball Thurston - Wētā FX Limited
- [ ] Larry Gritz - Sony Pictures Entertainment
- [ ] Matthew Low - DreamWorks Animation
- [ ] Michael Min - Adobe Inc.
- [ ] Michael B. Johnson - Apple Inc.
- [ ] Rebecca Bever - Walt Disney Animation Studios
- [ ] Ross Dickson - Amazon Web Services, Inc.
- [ ] Scott Dyer - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- [ ] Youngkwon Lim - Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
### Project Representatives
- [ ] Carol Payne - Diversity & Inclusion Working Group Representative, OpenColorIO Representative
- [ ] Cary Phillips - OpenEXR Representative
- [ ] Chris Kulla - Open Shading Language Representative
- [ ] Diego Tavares Da Silva - OpenCue Representative
- [ ] Jonathan Stone - MaterialX Representative
- [ ] Ken Museth - OpenVDB Representative
- [ ] Rachel Rose - Diversity & Inclusion Working Group Representative
### Industry Representatives
- [ ] Jean-Francois Panisset - Visual Effects Society
## Non-Voting Attendees
### Non-Voting Project and Working Group Representatives
- [ ] Alexander Forsythe - rawtoaces Representative
- [ ] Alexander Schwank - Universal Scene Description Working Group Representative
- [ ] Daniel Greenstein - OpenImageIO Representative
- [ ] Daryll Strauss - Zero Trust Working Group Representative
- [ ] Eric Reinecke - OpenTimelineIO Representative
- [ ] Erik Strauss - Open Review Initiative Representative
- [ ] Gary Oberbrunner - OpenFX Representative
- [ ] Jean-Christophe Morin - Rez Representative
- [ ] Nick Porcino - Universal Scene Description Working Group Representative
- [ ] Scott Wilson - ASWF Language Interop Project Representative
- [ ] Stephen Mackenzie - Rez Representative
### LF Staff
- [ ] David Morin - Academy Software Foundation
- [ ] Emily Olin - Academy Software Foundation
- [ ] John Mertic - The Linux Foundation
- [ ] Michelle Roth - The Linux Foundation
- [ ] Yarille Ortiz - The Linux Foundation
### Other Attendees
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## Agenda
- General Updates
- Dev Days - May 15, 2025 [#966](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/issues/966)
- OpenQMC [#434](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/issues/434)
- Rename project lifecycle stage 'Adopted' to 'Graduated' [#999](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/pull/999)
- DigiPro CFP closes 5/16 [#1003](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/issues/1003)
- Open Source Days 2025 [#1005](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/issues/1005)
- Propose to remove vote for annual reviews [#1016](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/pull/1016)
- Launching Machine Learning WG [#1046](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/issues/1046)
- SMPTE 2025 Annual Technical Conference - CFP closes 5/31 [#1049](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/issues/1049)
- Add option for Lightning Talks at TAC meetings [#1039](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/pull/1039)
- Annual Review: OpenCue [#495](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/issues/495)
- Annual Review: CI Working Group [#511](https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/tac/issues/511)
## Notes